On our usual patrol in New Berlin, we came across a freighter hauling prisoners from the cursed Battleship Altenburg. Not wanting to risk the lives of those caged on board, we stopped the trader and offered to buy them. The trader agreed and we loaded their cryo pods onto the Varyag. The ship was completely crewed by robots, extremely strange. The automated captain of the vessel offered to run prisoners to Voghtland in secret, but the crew was already nervous interacting with this ship so we declined and moved them on their way.
Once we were under power again, our ship's surgeon started to unlock the pods. One by one, we cracked every one of them open. It was an incredibly fulfilling to see the expressions of surprise and delight on the faces of those men and women when they realized where they were. It seems we hit a goldmine. Many of the people we liberated were friends and relatives of members of the crew, most where Hessians mixed with a few Bundschuh, all political prisoners. We returned to Voghtland within a few hours and released nearly 500 new fighters to our cause. Our return was made even more satisfying by the arrival of my XO shortly after. He disembarked his monster and quickly dropped off newly acquired supplies and information.
![[Image: RHShroom2.png]](http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj219/I_m_rdy/Shrooms/RHShroom2.png)